Approach to Obesity Management in the Primary Care Setting

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Staff management in Paediatric Primary care setting

In the last 6-7 years there has been a progressive increase in the use of nurses or secretaries in Paediatric Primary care setting. Regional incentives (few) and the rising (remarkable) of the workload and patients’ requests, convinced about the 40% of the italian Family Paediatricians (FP) to hire new staff. In the 70% of cases the employers were organized in working group in one private pract...

Management of Hyperthyroidism in Primary Care Setting

Hyperthyroidism is one the commonest endocrine diseases encountered in our daily practice. The classical features of hyperthyroidism include palpitation, tremor, heat intolerance, anxiety and weight loss despite increase in appetite. Although the clinical features are easy to recognise in most of the patients, it is important to recognise a large variety of atypical presentations. Some patients...

A decentralized, patient-centered approach to diabetes disease management in the primary care setting

Although many disease management programs have been developed for diabetes, no single design has proved best for all providers and patient populations. Cost effectiveness is especially relevant to diabetes programs because significant costs of the disease may come from complications that occur later in life, while the costs of the program are incurred immediately. For this reason, diabetes dise...

Improving Obesity Management in Adult Primary Care